Stepmania Challenge event!
 

Okay so here it is! I've finally gotten around to stop being lazy and actually posted this haha..

This is the new Stepmania Challenge thread, where I will host weekly challenges for the two most important things on stepmania:

Speed
MA (On MA challenges i will allow j7 if you want to compete with another person)


So basically, me Staiain and Kommisar will be judging files to play for both sections. We'll post the winners in a sort of a "hall of fame" it'll still be in this thread but just a bit longer down 8)


[THIS IS NOT A CONTEST, MORE LIKE AN ONGOING EVENT!!]
[YOU DONT HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR THIS, POST YOUR SCORES IF YOU WANT TO. YOU CAN ALSO POST IT EVEN IF YOU DONT PASS THE CHALLENGE JUST TO SHOW HOW AWESOME YOU ARE]
[IF NOTHING ELSE IS SAID THEN JUDGE 4 IS TO BE PLAYED]

Anyone is free to enter, for both MA and Speed. Rules will be posted under each challenge.

This is something i came up with a long time ago, just never got around to doing anything with it.. Now i realize that this is what the SM community need, specially with heaps of ppl coming back to this game. Hopefully even more will come back to enter these competitions! :)
I know this is coming close to the holidays and such and i emphasize with ppl who cant play and shit like that, so these are weekly challenges for a reason.

NEW STUFF! NEW STUFF! NEW STUFF!
Due to my retardedness im adding divisions in this. It was really silly of me to add too fast stuff, my apologiez for that.
There will be 5 different divisions in both MA and Speed. Going from 1st = hardest to 5th = easiest. You dont have to sign up for any division, simply post your score and the judges will recognize what division your posting too. You can even post to several divisions if you feel like it!


CHALLENGE STUFF:
I will post the new challenges around 8pm-midnight GMT+1 on Mondays. Challenges end on 11:59pm on Sunday's. New rules apply to each new challenges (obviously) Also just because you cant complete a challenge, that doesnt mean you suck at this game or whatever, simply that mabye the next challenge will be something that you are superior on instead of everyone else being this said challenge.

I dont want any QQing about how you guys suck (I wont really be able to watch out for this but if you do then prepare your flameshields) Basically i really cant stress this enough, this is to bring up the interest in competetive stepmania playing again, something that in MY opinion has been a problem in the past year.

About the "hall of fame" it will most likely be a list of to keep count of how many challenges you passed and so on, no one is losing. You can only win! Which is the point of this, to get people to trigger eachother to go even further in their sm skills.

Everyone can join, so why shouldn't you!?

Second challenge is here! Hope everyone enjoys this week and go beat some challenges!

Division. 1, Challenge no. 2! Speed: AA Earthquake oni

Division. 2, Challenge no. 2! Speed: Pass death reveals (melonman) 1.2

Division. 3, Challenge no. 2! Speed: AA vortex 1.1 oni

Division. 4, Challenge no. 2! Speed: FC anisakis heavy

Division. 5, Challenge no. 2! Speed: A or better on Smooooooch

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Division. 1, Challenge no. 2! MA: SDP AAA on Higan Retour Heavy

Division. 2, Challenge no. 2! MA: 30P or less on Of Course You Need Me and nEed Me....

Division. 3, Challenge no. 2! MA: 25P or less on Nightmare

Division. 4, Challenge no. 2! MA: 40p or less on Game Time

Division. 5, Challenge no. 2! MA: DDP FC Blue Army (Short Version)

NOW ADDED DIVISIONS! Please tell me if this is better, it SHOULD be better so i guess this will be alright.
Nothing super hard here either, just a starter ;)

Current and earlier challenge packs can be found HERE:
Challenge no. 3:
http://www.mediafire.com/?0qnj9e25vqqq5k5

Challenge no. 2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fk63k3zld1m7q13

Challenge no. 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?bgfmjz662ra55ox


I'll update the Hall of Fame whenever ppl post their scores etc etc :)
Hall of Fame: (Number of challenges passed)

XxMidigamixX: 1
kaiten123: 2
hi19hi19: 4
minhdo93: 5
sp1nzoK: 10
Staiain: 3
Sakish: 7
xXOpkillerXx: 14
EzExAzN: 7
Gundam-Dude: 1
remedy1502: 4
flash dualist: 2
HawkE: 2
alloyus: 7
AlexDest: 10
leonid: 1
wwplpmpn: 1
Puppet: 2
whocares973: 9

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Seeing as i had one reserved post, here goes what most ppl wants.

Here we will have personal challenges.
I'll write up someones name as soon as they get a challenge, and the challenge ofc (duh)

For those who dont know what this is:
You can send a challenge to anyone by typing it in this thread, any score on any song, just say it here. And to whom it is ofc 8)
You will most likely also recieve a challenge yourself, if you are new it'd be best to post a few scores first so you can prove at what skill-level you are at.
To find your challenge simply search for your name (CTRL+F)

Also i really have to say this, i will be trying to update this as often as i can. It should at least never take anymore than 24hrs until the challenge pages are updated 8)

It wont look exactly the same as on KBO but i'll do my best : pleaseddog:

Player: Challenge: Sender:
Everyone|||| Pass Puppet's Confidence in Domination from LCP3 with Hidden,added mines xmod ||||XxMidigamixX Completed: Puppet, DJMAYYYYNE

Gundam-Dude|||| <10p AAA on IAmMe's Kakumei (SMG2) ||||Puppet

OneWingedAngel|||| AAA (or 0g full combo) on cetaka's Hidden Answer ||||Puppet

Sakish|||| FC on blade^'s Solid State Squad ||||Puppet

hi19hi19|||| <10 CBs on Toph's One More Lovely ||||Puppet Completed

AlexDest|||| <10p AAA on Kil's Visitor (Xoon 5) ||||Puppet

Puppet|||| <10 CBs on Twillight of the Thunder God ||||Sakish

hi19hi19|||| <10 CBs on Higan Retour heavy |||||EzExZeRo7497 Completed

EzExAzN|||| Pass on Rave7 ||||hi19hi19 Completed

Choofers|||| 2 Greats or less on Piano Black ||||EzExAzN

Staiain|||| AA Milky blue 1.3 ||||Choofers

Staiain|||| AA Sharpest 1.5 ||||hi19hi19

Puppet|||| AA Rain ||||OneWingedAngel

Leonid|||| FC Cetakas opening title ||||Sakish

EzExAzN|||| AA on Sandstorm extended 1.1 ||||xXOpkillerXx Completed

xXOpkillerXx|||| High A or better on Cry of the BraveV2 1.2 ||||EzExAzN Completed

Puppet|||| <20 Perfects on Stage 2 ||||Sakish

Hawke|||| AAA Uber rave on 1.6 ||||Staiain

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If only I have a mega skill-boost...

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#est heavy or oni


heavy I might maybe be able to pull off a pass on 1.2 assuming I can ever figure out how to BS the runningman section appropriately
oni I don't think I could pass. hell I can barely pass it on normal music speed ._.

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Sorry thats #est heavy

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btw I love how 324 bpm 16ths with awful 1-handed trill patterns is "nothing too fast"

lmao

EDIT- can't pass atm, definitely could warmed up though. I'll take it as a challenge to try to get a B, I think I can do it...

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Also i was the one that chose the first week's challenges mainly because i couldnt get ahold of stai and chris was prolly busy so you might have to experience a radical change in difficulty.

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cool idea

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How about creating a package with the songs ? Maybe people like this idea and want to join, but don't have the packs with the songs you selected

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Similar to how Kommi ran the SM Tournament a little while ago.

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I like this idea a lot.

SM revival~

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Updated first post with DL link

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Might I suggest something such as "AA #est heavy on the highest rate you can" to include more people?
The skill range of Stepmania players these days is massive...


Either way I might as well kick this off: this is my best score on #est heavy 1.0 rate. It's a terrible score, I'm sure I can beat this, and I'm still convinced I can pass and possibly even get a B on 1.2 rate, but I'll have to warm up first.



Sightread of this file. I can't MA worth shit but at least I got an SDG... stupid miss, I blame the keyboard >_> I'll go for a clean SDG later, probably 5 or so greats. I don't think I can AAA this, I'm just way too inconsistent, but it could be fun to try.
As for the file itself, wow. I had no idea this file even existed but it's lots of fun, great stuff from kil as always.



Hopefully this will spark some fun amongst the more amateur stepmen on the forums... no reason we can't have a little competition too!

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This looks fun :)

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Now I might come off as rude with this post but bear with me here because I have to comment on this. Don't take it offensively.

Reading through this, I'm wondering if -any- of you actually took the time to -think- about your target demographic here. From how you set this whole thing up, you're targeting only the so-called "elite" players that freely post SM scores and blow everyone away with how good their scores are.

This alone is a complete and utter joke. You're juxtaposing the fact that -anyone- can join with challenges that are aimed only at top tier players. You're starting this whole thing off on a giant scale, eliminating all chance and likelihood of anyone that -isnt- a SM Scores thread regular to post here or partake in this challenge. As an example, this is basically telling someone to join a DDR tournament for newbies/beginners and starting the very first round off with shit that top tier ITG players would play. Some tourney for "everyone" right?

I'll even use me as an example here. I'm more or less a decent MA player and to MA anything well you need a decent amount of speed and stamina. I can barely even AA Sharpest Heavy on 1.0 rate. Did you even consider how people that are neither accurate or speedy feel when you tell them to AA it on ****ing 1.2x rate. Setting your standards this high not only intimidates people but it completely drives them away. You're appealing to the regulars that's comprised of practically less than 10 people and if you're going to do something as gullible as name 10 players that can AA sharpest heavy 1.2x then you're wasting your time because you're proving to me that this whole event is only targeted to the inner circlejerk of players as opposed to an actual community. I don't ****ing care if the inner circle is what kept "competitive stepmania" alive because you lot only make up a miniscule percentage out of the rest of the world that only casually plays.

tl;dr If you actually want to attract non-regulars or new people, you -have- to start on a much smaller scale. For example, even asking for a simple A on sharpest heavy would be sufficient (even then this is still pushing it). Take your baby steps and don't toss people right into the ****ing game without thinking about it. Same goes for the MA challenge when you can start off with something as simple as AAA'ing a song.

With the way you have it setup now, you're not going to get anymore than 10 different people posting in here, let alone have this actually take off the ground. I probably sound mad here but if you want this to be successful, you're going to have to take stepman psychology (oops I said it) into account as well as the demographic/community.

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lol gundam dude I figured I'd just post scores anyway. He did say you could post scores if you couldn't meet the challege...


but yeah, stepman psychology. hate to break it to you but 324 bpm stream is in fact "ridiculously fast" as far as 99% of SM players are concerned.

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Maybe we need to make divisions....

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and then there's some of us who have ok MA and ok speed, but can't get those kind of scores.

I've sdcb'd #est but I don't think I'm close to AA on 1.2 lmao.

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Anyone remember this?

http://www.keybeatonline.com/forums/...ght=Ziergdsx18

^Something like this would be nice to have again, with a few people in charge of it instead of just one. xd

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There's an entire FORUM devoted to this that most people don't even know exists. Check out the Challenge forum, you'll be surprised.

Watch out for the cobwebs though- the last post in that forum was almost a year ago lmao

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this was a ton of fun omg. I think my first MSWGO AA was in here

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Added divisions, consider this first week a trial week to see how things go.
Mainly doing this a trial week to get your info on how this looks and feels, each and everyone will probably contribute with something so go ahead and leave a rating on how this looks now. :)

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Would be cool if you put which pack each song is in, even if you're providing a download link for the files I know I for one might be interested in getting packs I don't have yet that include these files.

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which fn rofl, I'm assuming patashu's (I've made one as well)

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I'm assuming he's working on this :P

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:sp1nz resurrection:

Might give this a shot since started re-playing SM a few weeks ago. Getting some old skill back but still a long way to go, not that I was a huge pro anyway 8-)

The DL link doesn't let me load atm, will try later.

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Before I came in the thread I thought this would be "Anyone, post their challenges towards potential rival players reading the thread". There was an old thread on that once (EDIT: oops ninjad like mad) (http://www.keybeatonline.com/forums/...ead.php?t=1507) and I thought it went pretty well. It enables a vast range of players and different skill levels to find potential rivals; anyone could challenge any of the challenges posted in that thread and (potentially) match up his skill with whoever. At least IMO, it seems better than just one or two people defining challenges objectively because now it lets the whole range of skills from the community (at least those posting here) to match up against each other

.

Also, I beg to differ that speed/MA are the two most important things. Most important thing is

.

..

...


Having fun playing the game, regardless of how good or bad you are

Re: Stepmania Challenge event!
 

I remember this haha
it was cool :)

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I wouldn't mind the keybeatonline format either - I once made challenge list for myself and my nephew, was fun tackling some of those.

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Right you are! Well regarding regular challenges, thats another thing i had in mind.. But i went with this instead simply to make it more like an overall thing instead of personal stuff. I remember on the swedish forums when i was a noob, no one would ever give me challenges and even here people might have been left out.

Updated challenge #1 pack is soon uploaded, i'll update the first post when thats done

Re: Stepmania Challenge event!
 

LG's got the right idea on how this event can be reworked and more applicable to the community as opposed to the regulars/veterans. Take that into consideration.

Also, you and whoever is hosting this better make a commitment to this idea. If none of you take the time to actively update and post in here, this isn't going to last long either. If there's one major issue in SM today, it's that people start things but never finish them. Take a look in the Stepmania simfile forum here and you'd realize just how many of those packs -actually finish and release- aka barely any at all aside from stuff I do.

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I have loooooooooads of free time, so if i want to I'll dedicate lots of hours to this. I know the three of us can pull this through, reason for choosing stai and kommi to my side is that I speak to them on an almost daily basis. Plus I've always lacked the competetive play in stepmania, aside from rivalry that is.

Re: Stepmania Challenge event!
 

ey man just to let u kno: ur megaupload link doesnt work

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Worked perfectly for me?

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idk; i guess its my end then sorry

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Can someone mirror the pack for the challenge? the megaupload link is not working on my end -_- I'll try it again but its not loading up properly...

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the rules in the first post are kinda convoluted.
i.e. the speed rules say you have to use 1.2, but then certain songs say 1.1, or no speed modifier.
and what does it mean by "judge 7 accepted"

Re: Stepmania Challenge event!
 

Judge 7 is also known as ridiculous timing.

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Would like to see that running again tbh haha, if I could get some peeps to help out I could go for it again. xd

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Well, if the rules say 1.2 then you use 1.2, if there are no rates mentioned you can safely assume that the normal rate is to be played.

Also updated first post with a DL second link

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Sounds fun.

Sharpest 1.2.... I tried. xD
Not at that speed yet but I'll try to do more Division 1 challenges.



I'll probably post Division 2-4.

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Added personal challenge, see 2nd post for that. I guess you guys dont need much info on the personal challenges so the post is really small atm >_>

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fml...I WILL GET THAT DDP!!!
(Also, I FC'd it before but with 119p - 132p @.@)

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Gonna join this, lol.

(For speed)

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tried J7...



Also, just something for fun, Pass Puppet's Confidence in Domination from LCP3 with Hidden, added mines, and x-mod (for everyone)

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++ excellent idea
will attempt to participate

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Midigami: screenshotting the judge page is shit proof that you actually did it on J7

Not saying that I don't believe you, but for future reference

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might as well join in on this

could keep me motivated to get my speed and MA back

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oh...I always do it whenever I play J7 but I see what you mean. Thanks for letting me know

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is confidence in the domination even possible on x-mod lmao

i already know it ****s up on some sm releases cuz some goober put the wrong version in the pack, but those neg bpms probably make it unplayable o.O

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haha negative bpms what a radical concept why does it **** up zagh's perfect jai envie simfile

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challenges ahoy!

-Gundam - <10p AAA on IAmMe's Kakumei (SMG2)
-OWA - AAA (or 0g full combo) on cetaka's Hidden Answer [i bet ya can, given your chipstream score]
-Isaac - FC on blade^'s Solid State Squad
-hi19hi19 - <10 CBs on Toph's One More Lovely
-Alex - <10p AAA on Kil's Visitor (Xoon 5)

more once i remember who all plays :3

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loll I suck at stepmania. I could only do the Division 5 MA one, and I did it by intentionally great/gooding the slow parts of Ageha so I didn't get perfects XD

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so much rust :(... but at least i did it :)

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kaiten probably has the most entertaining scores to see. Good job on the 1.2 AA!

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What the hell man you improve fast >_>

SDCB Higan Retour Heavy dude.

EDIT: I want some challenges too haha.

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First play, 14 CBs, then 13, then 12, then 12, then 12... I think I've plateaued for tonight.

Definitely a good goal, gonna work on it some more in a bit probably!

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its possible. I just suck at x-mod xP. I'll probably swap themes to see if I can get the added mines option since the current theme I'm using doesn't have added mines.

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i challenge u 2 get a sub-25p aaa on hayden's mei

(also i got 2p on deep magenta just earlier; idk if its good but ill post screen later)

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lmao hi19 skillboostin' all day e'eryday

lmao you're nuts, although I haven't given this file a go in the past year or so, so maybe....I'll try tomorrow :twisted:

I'll toss one back at ya - AA Rain (no idea how good your stamina is but this seems feasible for you assuming you haven't done so already)

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Okay, fine, I challenge you to pass Rave7.

I think you can do 400 bpm streams!

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It took me 40 tries dude
A little too fast for me (I can barely combo and I have to control mash). Pass is a pass though.

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This idea is brilliant.

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Wow you did it! mashing or not, that still takes an assload of speed to pull off.
Congrats :)

I have to say you'll almost surely enjoy the version that's in the FFR winter pack a lot more. I can't wait for it to be released!


EDIT-
Got this!
But I cheated with Mirror mode, I'll try getting a SDCB on non-mirror as well. My best non-mirror is still 10 CBs, gotten that a few times now.



Also you were asking about this, so here's a score.
Random sightread, I'm sure I could bring this up a little. The file is way harder than I remember, but still really fun haha
My problem is I can read the streams and actually PA them for about 60-100 combo, but as soon as I get a CB I dump at least 5 more CBs and tons of greats too before I can get back on track in the streams.

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Nice pass on Destiny Gamma Standard, and nice SDCB on Higan Retour.

Actually since when is using Mirror cheating?

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Not cheating, just that the idea behind this is to improve and transferring all my weak patterns to my dominant hand isn't going to help me improve haha

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sdcb on higan isn't too hard, you can do it!

lol I'd like a challenge too :'D
I'm getting a new harddrive today so that should eliminate most of my lag

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I challenge you to get 2g or less on Piano Black.
I think you could do it.

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Dropping in to request some reasonable challenges

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yeah probably lol, my best is 4g.

@Staiain: Maybe an AA on Milky Blue... 1.3x?

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Staiain, AA #est heavy 1.5!
I bet you could do it, if not 1.4 for sure.

405 BPM runningmen have fun :)

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wait...that J7 score I posted is considered as a J4 DDP O.O

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You missed mine for Puppet, but it was kinda hiding near the bottom of my post so eh, understandable lol

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somebody should give RAWW SLUUUUUUU!!!! (Berzerker Cover) from midare 4 a try.


on 1.2

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STEPMANIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Overall this has the potential to be really great, but I think you need to be a little more careful picking songs and requirements for it to really take off. I had fun regardless though!

EDIT- For reference, here's my try at Emerald Sword 1.4. 252 BPM streams and 8th anchor jacks seems about right for D3, maybe 1.3 speed (234 BPM) if you'd like it to be easier than that.
1.4 would certainly be quite hard for me to get but I think I might be able to do it.
Also lol at how I had to use an xmod because I don't have cmods low enough to accommodate 1.4 music speed. Shows you how often I play things on rates >_>

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Updated, thanks for notifying me :D

Challenging leonid to fc cetakas opening title !

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I registered when I saw this thread :D
Anyway...
Speed Division 5

Speed Division 4

Speed Division 3 (How to get stepmania 4.0 cvs to show rates?)

Speed Division 2 - Can't believe I just did this

Haven't tried #est 1.2x but probably i'll just get a B
MA Division 5

Failed MA Division 4

Oh well, MA has never been my strong point...